Next of Kin Author:Al Dewlen When Vic Headstream lost his only son in Vietnam, all the meaning seemed to go out of his life-until slowly but surely a fierce, burning; hatred began to replace it: — "I cannot say exactly how I arrived at the resolve. Perhaps the resolve existed already, ordained from day one as a feature of my destiny, so that it simply arrived at me. Wha... more »tever, on the wretched Thursday after my wife first unsealed that hideous letter, and as I read it through still another time, the hatred which like a famished beast had been licking up the litter of my dismembered soul seemed to relent, as though tamed a little by the aura of decision coming down, and I knew that my course was established; at last, entirely, and irrevocably.
"I was going to kill a man…”
So begins a private journey into the gates of Hell, by a Man whose spirit cannot be at peace until lie has avenged the dishonored heroism of his son ...« less